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dog's chance

dog's chance noun: little or no likelihood.

Noun

a dog's chance

  1. (idiomatic) Little or no likelihood.
    • "Poor old boy was in a pretty bad way. Fact is,I didn't give him a dog's chance."1936, F.J. Thwaites, chapter XVII, in The Redemption, Sydney: H. John Edwards, published 1940, page 177
    • One day, more than 60 years ago, we went as a family to the National Wallace Monument. My father took a binary, black-and-white approach to people and things: in toothpaste, Colgate was bad and Euthymol good; in bicycles, Raleigh was preferred to BSA; in Polar explorers, Captain Scott didn’t stand...2014 September 16, Ian Jack, “Is this the end of Britishness”, in The Guardian

Synonyms of dog's chance

Questions about dog's chance

What does dog's chance mean?
Dog's chance means little or no likelihood.
What part of speech is dog's chance?
Dog's chance is a noun.

Words near dog's chance in the dictionary

  1. dog's ballocks
  2. dog's body
  3. dog's bollocks
  4. dog's breakfast
  5. dog's breakfasts
  6. dog's chance
  7. dog's cherries
  8. dog's cherry
  9. dog's dangly bits
  10. dog's dinner
  11. dog's egg

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